Thousands of Mexican Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who survive violence in their homes are being put at risk of further abuse by a justice system that often fails to take...

Amnesty International today condemned the Chinese authorities’ blocking of certain websites for foreign journalists covering the Olympic Games. The organisation called on the International Olympic...

Amnesty International has welcomed the UN Secretary-General's decision to appoint Judge Navenethem Pillay as the new UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The organisation believes that Judge Pillay...

As the Zimbabwean government and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) prepare to enter power-sharing talks, Amnesty International called on both parties to ensure there are no pardons...

The Chinese authorities have broken their promise to improve the country’s human rights situation and betrayed the core values of the Olympics, said Amnesty International in a new report published...

Amnesty International has condemned the South African police’s recent forcible removals of more than 700 refugees and asylum-seekers from the Glenanda ("Rifle Range Road") displacement camp near...

Amnesty International UK today said it was ‘appalled’ at the findings of new research from the Jospeh Rowntree Charitable Trust, showing a massive rise in destitution among refused asylum seekers...

Edinburgh: Amnesty International has announced its line-up for this year’s Edinburgh Festival - the human rights campaigners’ biggest and widest-ranging programme from the Festival’s main “cause”...

Chinese activist’s case to be highlighted at ‘Stand Up For Freedom’ comedy nights Amnesty International is asking people in Scotland to send a birthday message of support for an imprisoned man in...

Amnesty International today demanded the immediate release of Beijing housing rights activist Ye Guozhu. He was due to be released on Saturday 26 July, but will now remain imprisoned until 1 October...